CHAPTER XXV. 
THE WIN-TUN’. 
There is presented in this nation an illustration of the venerable saw, 
flecti, non frangi. Ranking among the lower types of the race; supersti- 
tious and grossly sensual, but industrious and well provisioned for savages; 
joyous, blithe-hearted, excessively fond of social dances and gayeties ; 
averse to war and fighting; timid, peaceful, and gentle, they have never- 
theless seen more heroic peoples melt away around them like the dew. 
With that toughness and tenacity of life characterizing some of the lower 
orders of beings, they have lived on and possess their homes while better 
and braver races have gone to oblivion. They early learned to let the 
Americans well alone, and they have dumbly and placidly beheld the latter 
sweep out of existence bold mountaineers who were wont of old te make 
their lives a terror. They have gone out widely from their ancient domain; 
I have seen them in Inyo County, in Yreka, and in various other parts of 
the State; and a small colony of them settled in Huerfano Park, Colorado. 
IT saw a Wintitin who, as servant to a traveler, had visited New York, China, 
and other places; and another who had acquired a good education (for a 
born savage), including a remarkably correct and grammatical use of 
English. 
Their name, Wintin, denotes “Indians” or ‘‘people”, and is one of 
which they are proud, and use constantly as if it were, The People, the Great 
People, whereas the Patwin never use theirs in anational sense. This inter- 
pretation seems to be sustained by the fact that win-ti means “ chief”. 
Generally speaking, they occupy the whole of the Upper Sacramento 
and the Upper Trinity. In designating the various tribes, they always pre- 
fix the point of the compass wai, nor, pu’-i, noam (north, south, east, west), 
but they show much ingenuity in diversifying the terms, employing Los, 
lak'-ki, su, mok, kekhl, yu'-ki (house, tongue, nation, people, tribe, enemy), to 
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